Triple ups!

Gnarly Dancer 42 · 360 flip Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 5121 City: kalamazoo

one of my friends showed me how and drove me some triple ups today Shocked

they're so crazy i got like 7 feet of air off the trippled up jet ski wake rollers

Shocking

i cant imagine hitting one from a wakeboard boat

anyone else try hitting these? if not, you should they're so fun Idea

samcollett · Posted: May 19, 2009 10:44 pm Post subject:

how do you do it?

Gnarly Dancer 42 · 360 flip Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 5121 City: kalamazoo

samcollett, i would try to explain but i think it would be easier to just draw a picture of it. you basically make a C then come around and pull the rider through it

the black line/arrows are the boat path and the red spot is the sweet spot where the waves converge to make the triple up

oh and it's not a part of the boats wake that is right next to you, its just the rollers from it, so the boat just drives next to the sweet spot

skimboarder · Posted: May 20, 2009 12:02 am Post subject:

behind a damn jet ski? i gotta try this tomorrow Smash

waterdork88 · Frontside 180 Joined: 12 Dec 2004 Posts: 426 City: Orlando

I like to make like an S turn a few times then travel around... the C will work, but doing more turns gives you different rollers to choose from... and it will also make you look like the worst driver on the lake Laughing

I'd love to see a wakeskater hit one of my trippleups Shocked

Steven M · Posted: May 20, 2009 12:43 am Post subject:

ollishuvitz , roll the footage from July of '05. Cool

-scuba

samcollett · Posted: May 20, 2009 12:45 am Post subject:

damn man i can't wait to try that.

dylo · Posted: May 20, 2009 6:23 am Post subject:

we do them differently. we drive them like you have shown but we hit the sweet spot with the wake.. i have a photo somewhere of dean smith about to get swallowed whole by one

stompin9s · Posted: May 20, 2009 7:49 am Post subject:

We slow down alittle to make the rollers big and beefy

kyle · Posted: May 20, 2009 10:28 am Post subject:

We do triple ups and triple up whips when we strap. They actually make you go to big for just a normal triple up but triple up whips are the most fun thing to do on a wakeboard. If you have ever seen Shafted, Parks hits mainly triple ups in that vid and he does two triple up whips. One he does a double tantrum and the other he does kind of a grabbed tantrum 360. I've never boosted as high as he does but i've gotten pretty close on double backflips on them, i guess they really aren't tantrums when there is no rope.

kyle · Posted: May 20, 2009 10:29 am Post subject:

And the slow down method is about half the size of a properly driven triple up. The triple ups on my 210 are around chin high.

stOAKed · Backside 180 Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 1946

Sounds sick Smash

I'm finally starting my season this weekend

stompin9s · Posted: May 20, 2009 9:13 pm Post subject:

omg i love parks' triple up whips <3

mr.foonis · Posted: May 20, 2009 10:14 pm Post subject:

dylo, post it!

T-Hawk · Posted: May 21, 2009 9:59 am Post subject:

Footy!

The other day i got a double up behind my ski, and i was like 5 feet in the air, and almost cleared the whole wake.
One can only imagine the power of the triple up.. Birthday

joel · Backside 180 Joined: 20 Apr 2008 Posts: 747 City: ORLANDO

Gnarly Dancer 42, do you jump off the sweet spot into the middle on the boat wake?

Gnarly Dancer 42 · 360 flip Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 5121 City: kalamazoo

joel, nope its just rollers that you jump off to flat

waterdork88 · Frontside 180 Joined: 12 Dec 2004 Posts: 426 City: Orlando

really depends... I always drive it so the rider can cut out and land in the flats, but somehow my friend can drive it perfectly so that the huge roller collides perfectly into the boat wake Shocked

mojo · Posted: May 22, 2009 12:14 am Post subject:

triple ups are just one up on a double up. y our supposed to drive through it like a d-up. if you don't it's just called hitting rollers. whips are cool

Gnarly Dancer 42 · 360 flip Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 5121 City: kalamazoo

aight here's a video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMUQwZrCNfA

i had one even higher that same day, but i didnt land it. Crazy Eyes